Update: However I've also been continuing to fiddle with the ACR to try and accomplish something vaguely useful. I've now got some perl code which will grab a VOEvent RSS2.0 feed look through it for new events, and upload these to the user's VOSpace. Not exactly Earth shattering, but it's a start...

Update: It also turns out that just about everyone is currently generating VOEvent messages with bogus id's. Looks like we're going to have to fix that one...

A few years before that he caused a privacy scandal by uncovering that your iPhone was recording your location all the time. This caused several class action lawsuits and a U.S. Senate hearing. Several years on, he still isn't sure what to think about that.

Alasdair is a former academic. As part of his work he built a distributed peer-to-peer network of telescopes that, acting autonomously, reactively scheduled observations of time-critical events. Notable successes included contributing to the detection of what—at the time—was the most distant object yet discovered.